I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work. — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
“Where have all the poets gone? Rhyme with passion left unsung, Even now my heart it yearns, Until my poet prince returns.’ ” — Heather Burch Copy Share Image
The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets. — Plato Copy Share Image
“When reading, one needs to remember that poets and philosophers are not prescribing courses of action but exploring aspects of existence.” — Louise Cowan Copy Share Image
Each of us as poets, as decent suffering human beings, has to find a way to run our lives that is compassionate… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
Poets suffer occasional delusions of angelhood and find themselves condemned to express it in the bric-a-brac tongues of the human world. Lots… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill. — Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery Copy Share Image
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“Poetry is one of my guilty pleasures and I want to thank you poets for providing me with beautiful words that I… — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
“Glorious sex that poets write about and that angels blow their trumpets over absolutely requires the participants to be fully engaged and… — Roberto Hogue Copy Share Image
I'm into the lyrical side of rap. I listen to some old Eminem songs and think, 'Wow, he's a genius.' He's one… — Phoebe Tonkin Copy Share Image
The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Poets are always making waves. I mean, you know, in an ideal situation, the ideal republic can't tolerate poets because - it… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
A cool & diversified version of a mix tape. The BreakBeat Poets is a thorough and complete summation of Golden Era writers… — Chance the Rapper Copy Share Image
And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have. — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
“He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“The esoteric finds the Absolute within the traditions, as poets find poetry within the poems.” — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
“Because who hasn't tried to pull their arms from the sleeves of gravity's lead coat? Who doesn't have at least one pair… — Lucia Perillo Copy Share Image
“. . .criticism is to poetry as air is to a noise: it allows it to be heard; and even if we… — Annie Finch Copy Share Image
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I think poets are people who are like this; for whatever reason you feel psychological exile because you’re always an outsider...” — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills… — David Walton Copy Share Image
“God has it in for the poets, that's obvious, but the Bombaywallahs hold a special place in his dispensation.” — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare, the greatest of poets, was the greatest reader of Nature and life.” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“With dark raven paper and twinkling white ink, I wrote my heart in the night’s sky.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“in the end it is words poetry. sunsets someone’s deep blue silk voice. mountain scents. someone’s smile. eyes. that we have no… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“this is where the poets will interject / they will say: show, dont tell / but that assumes most people can see” — Marwa Helal Copy Share Image
“Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I recall that now and I recall everything for what do we have but the past to parent us?” — Kathleen Driskell Copy Share Image
All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: 'Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy” — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
“That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it. — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
